"Koi no Uta" is a song cycle based on 24 Tanka poems by 23 different authors. Translations are Copyrighted 1996-1997 by Stephen M. Raskin
Japanese midi created by Stephen Raskin
-- Yamabe no Akahito (8th C)
I wish I were close
To you as the wet skirt of
A salt girl to her body.
I think of you always.
-- Lady Horikawa (12th C)
Will he always love me?
I cannot read his heart.
This morning my thoughts
Are as disordered
As my black hair.
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